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Topic: WinTV HVR-1950 USB2 (Read 1279 times)

I read someone was able to get the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1950 external USB2 analog and digital tuner working with MythTV and LMCE. I believe they got it working with the existing PVR-USB2 drivers. I have read all the problems with internal PCI/PCIe cards and lack of support for new chipsets, etc. like the HVR-2250. It seems like it is easier to support if the interface is USB and all that changed is messages.

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Is the HVR-1950 planned for official support soon? Is there anything that I can do to help test/develop since I have the hardware?

What needs to be done is a device template needs to be made for the device. The WinTV PVR-USB2 device template can be used as a pattern. Just being sure to substitute the vendor/model ID appropriately, and maybe using the same setup scripts as for the WinTV PVR USB2.

I also read somewhere in addition to having the PVRUSB2 kernel support enabled or compile the kernel module, that you must download and compile some sort of firmware interface from the Windows drivers.

Also, if you can post a link or two to get me started looking into the "device template."

I attached the output of the lsusb -v command listing the device information.

I also read somewhere in addition to having the PVRUSB2 kernel support enabled or compile the kernel module, that you must download and compile some sort of firmware interface from the Windows drivers.

I attached the output of the lsusb -v command listing the device information.

OK I did confirm that you do in fact need to extract the firmware from the windows drivers.